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Energy · interactive comparison
Energy & environment
Electricity generation
Follow annual generation across ten economies from 2000 to 2025. Switch between total and per-capita views, filter countries and export the chart.
Formal dataPrototype cross-checkEmber + OWIDAnimated ranking
Industry · official national figure
Industry & manufacturing
Manufacturing value added
China's official 2025 yuan value alongside a World Bank same-source international ranking and long-run trends.
Formal dataNBS + World BankCurrent prices
Transport · official annual series
Transport & infrastructure
High-speed rail operating length
Track the network from 2020 to 2025 and understand why operating route length, track length and construction pipelines differ.
Formal dataMinistry of TransportUIC context
Economy · official national accounts
Economy & finance
Gross domestic product
China’s 2025 GDP, real growth, per-capita value, industry structure and quarterly growth.
Formal dataNBSCurrent and constant prices
New energy · official industrial output
Industry & manufacturing
New energy vehicles
Annual production, growth, year-end stock and the distinction between output and vehicles on the road.
Formal dataNBSProduction
Energy · consumption structure
Energy & environment
Energy mix
Clean-energy and coal shares in total energy consumption, plus electricity generation by source.
Formal dataNBSDefinition warning
Economy · trade
Trade & global links
Goods trade
China’s latest customs totals, long-run export history and a same-source international comparison.
Formal dataChina Customs + World BankHistory + comparison
Economy · consumption
Economy & finance
Household consumption
Per-capita expenditure alongside national-accounts history and international comparison.
Formal dataNBS + World BankScope warning
Economy · investment
Economy & finance
Investment and capital formation
Domestic fixed-asset investment separated from internationally comparable capital formation.
Formal dataNBS + World BankHistory + comparison
Population · national structure
Population & society
Population and urbanization
China’s population, urbanization and age structure, plus current official birth-rate history and recent natural-year birth counts with revision boundaries explicit.
Formal dataNBSPopulation + birthsRevision boundaries
Energy · infrastructure
Energy & environment
Installed power capacity
Total, solar, wind, hydropower and biomass capacity, kept separate from electricity generation.
Formal dataNational Energy AdministrationGW not TWh
Science · research inputs
Technology & innovation
Research and development
R&D expenditure, intensity and basic-research share using official annual statistics.
Formal dataNBSScale + intensity
Transport · ports
Transport & infrastructure
Ports and container throughput
National cargo tonnage and container throughput with coastal, inland and trade-scope context.
Formal dataMinistry of TransportTonnes + TEU
Industry · physical output
Industry & manufacturing
Crude steel production
China’s annual crude steel output, same-source world share, the official top-40 table and a public-viewer animation for the 2025 top ten across 2021–2025.
Formal dataWorld Steel AssociationProduction not capacity
Industry · vehicle production
Industry & manufacturing
Motor vehicle production
China’s all-vehicle output, historical world share and an OICA same-edition top-ten comparison.
Formal dataOICAProduction not sales
Agriculture · crop production
Agriculture & food
Rice production
China’s 1961–2024 rice output, same-source world share and the 2024 FAOSTAT country ranking.
Formal dataFAOSTATProduction not consumption
Industry · construction materials
Industry & manufacturing
Cement production
China’s 2025 cement output, same-edition world share and the USGS top-ten producing-country snapshot.
Formal snapshotUSGSRounded estimates
Industry · shipbuilding
Industry & manufacturing
Shipbuilding industry
China’s 2024–2025 ship completions, new orders and year-end orderbook, with metric-specific world shares.
Formal dataMIITDWT flows + stock
Industry · automation
Industry & manufacturing
Industrial robots
China’s 2023–2025 industrial robot installations and shares, with exact public operational stock through 2024 and leading customer industries through 2025.
Formal dataIFRFlow + stock + shares
Industry · solar manufacturing
Industry & manufacturing
Photovoltaic manufacturing
China’s 2023–2024 polysilicon, wafer, cell and module production, downstream exports and price changes.
Formal dataMIITMixed units + qualifiers
Industry · batteries
Industry & manufacturing
Lithium-ion battery industry
China’s 2023–2024 battery output structure, installed volume, export value, industry output value and lithium-salt indicators.
Formal dataMIITPhysical + monetary indicators
Industry · semiconductors
Industry & manufacturing
Integrated circuits
China’s 2023–2025 integrated-circuit output, export/import quantities and values, trade gaps and average unit values.
Formal dataNBSProduction + customs trade
Population · health outcomes
Health & education
Life expectancy and health
China’s official 2024 resident life expectancy, WDI 1960–2024 trend, gender gap, infant mortality and international comparison.
Formal dataChina government + WDISource boundary
Agriculture · grain and crop structure
Agriculture & food
Grain production and crop structure
China’s 2025 total grain output, rice–wheat–maize structure, area and yield, plus FAOSTAT long-run and international context.
Formal dataNBS + FAOSTATSource boundary
Energy · carbon emissions
Energy & environment
Energy-related CO₂ emissions
China’s territorial fossil-fuel and industrial-process CO₂ since 1950, source structure, world share and same-source country comparison.
Formal dataOWID + Global Carbon ProjectTerritorial scope
Transport · civil aviation
Transport & infrastructure
Aviation passenger and freight
China's 2017-2025 civil aviation passenger journeys, passenger-kilometres, freight and mail tonnage, and tonne-kilometres.
Formal dataNBSTraffic vs turnover
Innovation · international patent filings
Technology & innovation
PCT international patent applications
China's 2025 PCT application total, world share, global trend, top-20 origins and a 1979–2025 animated origin ranking.
Formal dataWIPOAnimated ranking
Economy · retail and digital commerce
Economy & finance
Retail sales and e-commerce
China's 2017–2025 retail and online-sales trends, plus a fixed 2016–2024 UNCTAD multi-economy enterprise e-commerce comparison.
Formal dataNBSUNCTAD animated context
Manufacturing · metals
Industry & manufacturing
Primary aluminium production
China's 2017–2025 primary aluminium output, plus a fixed 2020–2024 BGS multi-economy production comparison.
Formal dataNBSBGS animated context
Society · education
Health & education
Educational attainment and higher education
China's 2019–2025 official higher-education participation and scale, plus WDI/UIS multi-country participation and adult Bachelor's attainment context.
Formal dataMinistry of EducationWorld Bank + UNESCO UIS
Innovation · research output
Technology & innovation
Scientific publications
China's fractional-count S&E publication output, same-source world share, 2002–2023 fixed-top-ten animation and top-1%-cited journal article context.
Formal dataNSF/NCSESAnimated ranking
Economy · manufactured trade
Trade & global links
Manufactured goods exports
China's UNCTADstat A12 manufactured-goods exports, same-source world share, 1995–2025 fixed-top-ten animation and product-group structure.
Formal dataUNCTADstatAnimated ranking
Society · labour market
Population & society
Employment and unemployment
China's official employment and separate surveyed/registered unemployment series, plus four non-spliced ILOSTAT modelled comparisons across ten economies from 1991 to 2025.
Formal dataNBS + ILOSTATMethod boundaries
Economy · trade in services
Trade & global links
Trade in services
China's 2018–2025 MOFCOM services-trade totals, exports, imports and balance, plus WDI service-export and import comparisons across ten economies from 2005 to 2024.
Formal dataMOFCOM + World BankAnimated ranking
Society · healthcare capacity
Health & education
Healthcare resources
China's latest healthcare institutions, beds, physicians and nurses, detailed domestic structure, and WDI resource-density comparisons with actual years shown.
Formal dataNBS + NHC + WDINo interpolation
Society · household finances
Population & society
Household savings
Survey-based disposable income not consumed, with national, urban and rural trends from 2017 to 2025.
Formal dataNBS household surveySurvey-derived
Environment · urban air quality
Energy & environment
Air quality and pollution
Track PM2.5 and good-air days across 339 cities from 2021 to 2025, with a pollutant snapshot and explicit monitoring-scope boundaries.
Formal dataMinistry of Ecology and Environment339-city monitoring average
Economy · corporate ranking
Economy & finance
China vs. United States in the Fortune Global 500
Fortune's annual China-total and United States company counts from 2017 to 2026, with same-edition sources and a transparent bilateral gap.
Formal dataFortune MediaSame-edition comparison
Agriculture · livestock production
Agriculture & food
Meat production
China's 1961–2024 total meat output, production structure, same-source world share and FAOSTAT country ranking.
Formal dataFAOSTATProduction not consumption
Innovation · AI industry and adoption
Technology & innovation
Artificial intelligence industry and adoption
China's 2025 AI industry and computing snapshot, generative-AI user adoption, regulatory filings and WIPO patent-family comparison.
Formal dataMIIT + CNNIC + CAC + WIPODefinitions kept separate
Environment · water resources and use
Energy & environment
Water resources and use
Track China's annual water resources, sectoral use, supply sources and efficiency indicators from 2014 to 2025 with definition breaks preserved.
Formal dataMinistry of Water ResourcesResource and use accounting
Society · housing market
Population & society
Housing and real estate
China's 2011-2025 real-estate investment, construction, sales, completed-but-unsold floorspace and developer funding cycle, plus the December 2025 70-city residential-price snapshot.
Formal dataNBS 2011-202570-city price snapshot
Economy · international investment
Trade & global links
Foreign direct investment
China's FDI inflows and outflows, world share, GDP-relative comparisons and a broad-coverage global ranking from one World Bank/WDI snapshot.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI1990–2024 ranking
Innovation · digital connectivity
Technology & innovation
Internet penetration
CNNIC official observation-period trend and a separately presented WDI/ITU international comparison.
Formal dataCNNIC + World Bank / ITUSource boundary
Population · fertility transition
Population & society
Total fertility rate
China, World and 14 other major economies from 1960–2024, with a 2.1 approximate replacement reference, East Asia comparison and fixed-set animated ranking.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI1960–2024
Society · defence spending
Defence & security
Military expenditure
Compare the 2025 top ten military spenders across a complete 1993–2025 history using SIPRI current dollars, constant 2024 dollars and military burden (% of GDP).
Formal dataSIPRICurrent vs constant prices separated
Society · defence capability
Defence & security
Military capabilities and major equipment
A source-layered view of China’s force structure, commissioned carriers, naval scale, ballistic missiles, airborne early warning and nuclear forces without collapsing them into a composite score.
Formal dataSource-layeredOfficial facts vs estimates separated
Economy · international reserves
Trade & global links
Foreign exchange reserves
China’s WDI reserves excluding monetary gold, long-run comparison with major economies and a broad-coverage 1990–2024 global ranking.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI / IMF IFS1990–2024 ranking
Transport · road infrastructure
Transport & infrastructure
Road and expressway mileage
Track China's year-end total road network and expressway length from 2010 to 2025, while keeping toll-road and international motorway definitions separate.
Formal dataMinistry of Transport2010–2025 history
Innovation · technology-intensive trade
Trade & global links
High-technology exports
China’s high-technology product exports, share of manufactured exports, world share and a broad-coverage global ranking.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI / UN Comtrade2009–2024 ranking
Economy · external balance
Trade & global links
Current account balance
China’s signed current-account balance in dollars and as a share of GDP, with 2025 fixed-economy comparisons and a broad 1990–2024 surplus ranking.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI / IMF BoP1990–2024 surplus ranking
Economy · travel and tourism
Trade & global links
International tourism
China’s international inbound and outbound tourism, world-arrival share, pre-pandemic comparison and the observed 2020 COVID shock.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDI / UN Tourism1995–2020 ranking
Economy · passenger-car retail
Economy & finance
Passenger-car retail by brand origin
Track China’s 2015–2025 brand-origin retail shares and the annual CPCA manufacturer Top 10 from 2018 to 2025.
Formal dataCPCARetail not production
Population · aging
Population & society
Population aging
China's 1960–2025 population age 65+ share and total, old-age dependency ratio, international comparison and UN WPP 2024 medium projection to 2050.
Formal dataWorld Bank WDIUN WPP 2024 projection
Food · household consumption
Agriculture & food
Vegetable and fruit consumption
Track 2013–2024 NBS household-survey consumption of vegetables and fresh fruit, plus a separate 2010–2023 FAOSTAT international food-availability comparison.
Formal dataNBS household surveyFAOSTAT international comparisonDifferent concepts kept separate
Society · health financing
Health & education
Health expenditure
China's 2000–2023 current health expenditure, per-capita PPP spending, government financing share, out-of-pocket share and same-vintage international comparison.
Formal dataWHO GHEDWorld Bank WDI
Economy · public finance
Economy & finance
Government debt
China's IMF WEO general-government gross debt ratio, same-vintage comparison with major economies and April 2026 projections through 2031.
Formal dataIMF WEO April 20262026–2031 projections labeled
Energy · environment
Energy & environment
Forest cover and afforestation
China's 1990–2023 forest cover and forest area from WDI/FAOSTAT, major-economy comparison, and 2023–2025 annual afforestation activity from the National Bureau of Statistics.
Formal dataFAOSTAT / World Bank WDINBS annual communiqués
Infrastructure · delivery networks
Transport & infrastructure
Express delivery and parcel volume
Track China's express-delivery volume, per-capita use, service mix, regional distribution and traditional postal parcels while preserving historical scope breaks.
Formal dataState Post Bureau2010–2025 historyScope break labeled
Transport · freight networks
Transport & infrastructure
Freight volume and freight turnover
China’s 2017–2025 freight tonnage and tonne-kilometres by rail, road, waterway, civil aviation and pipeline, with 2019 and 2020 scope breaks labeled.
Formal dataNBS2017–2025Scope breaks labeled
Population · marriage registration
Population & society
Marriage registrations
China's annual registered marriage couples from 1978 to 2025, with the NBS-to-MCA source boundary explicit and partial 2026 data excluded from the annual trend.
Formal dataNBS + Ministry of Civil AffairsAnnual completed years
Energy · fossil fuel consumption
Energy & environment
Coal, oil and natural gas consumption
China’s 1980–2024 coal, oil and natural gas consumption, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Formal dataUS EIAConsumption not production
Energy · renewable generation
Energy & environment
Wind, solar and hydro generation
China’s 2000–2025 actual wind, solar and hydro electricity generation, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Formal dataEmberGeneration not capacity
Agriculture · fisheries and aquaculture
Agriculture & food
Aquatic product output
China’s 1960–2024 aquatic product output with aquaculture/capture split, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Formal dataWDI · FAOProduction not consumption
Energy · nuclear and thermal generation
Energy & environment
Nuclear and fossil generation
China’s 2000–2025 nuclear and fossil electricity generation, same-source world shares and an animated country ranking.
Formal dataEmberGeneration not capacity
Economy · household balance sheets
Economy & finance
Household credit annual net change
China and Japan household-credit cycles from the same BIS break-adjusted series, with domestic-currency net changes and a percentage comparison.
Formal dataBISChina + Japan
Society · education and mobility
Health & education
International student mobility
A mixed-latest-year map of major global student flows, China's leading overseas destinations and clearly separated 2018 inbound-to-China origin data.
Formal dataUNESCO UISChina MOE 2018 context
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